Conversations

Conversations with Allie are so fun. She is just a pipsqueak adult. Today I was playing with Katelyn and Allie was "doin' her own thing." Here is the run-down.

Allie: "I'm gonna go get ready to go to the castle."

Me: "Okay."

Allie: "I need to shave (gets her plastic hammer and pretends to shave her face), do my make-up (gets her play-doh container and pretends to put blush and eyeshadow on), brush my teeth (again, uses the hammer to do this), floss (uses a silly band to floss her teeth). Now I'm all ready. I need to go to the castle to get a text."

Me: "A text? Okay, be safe!"

She goes running to the other room and is gone for a few minutes. Then she comes prancing back.

Allie: " I got my text from my grandmother at the castle. Now I need to go bowling. I'm lost. I need some help because I can't get to bowling."

Me: "That is a big problem. Do you have a map?"

Allie: "Hmmm, probably just need to go GPSin'."

Oh, I love her imagination and her language. What a crack up!

We love...

cheesy smiles, bundled walks, diva shades.

feeding the "birds" bird food.

the placement of Balentime's treats on Hello Kitty.

a good sitter, chewing on a curler...chewing on everything.

this big girl sitting in her highchair.

a sleeping beauty.

that look of, "Why are you doing this to me? Now I have no way to suck on anything because my hands are trapped, oh and I can't move either."

those fast hands grabbing the side of the swing and hanging on for dear life!

California Adventure

Such a cool place.
Seriously, so cool!

Pilot Larry and Co-pilot Luanne with Pilot Goofy

Hollywood

Tower of Terror. Okay, ALL of my friends say they LOVED this ride so I just had to go on it. The look on my face doesn't do my feelings any justice. I was scared out of my mind. I hated this ride so bad. Everyone else liked it for some strange reason, especially that guy in front of me!

California Screamin' was so awesome we went on it twice. This is our second time so we knew where the camera was and we played it up pretty good! Hahaha, I love it!

The food was so good...and so expensive!

Cute little Mickey. We love you.

Our favorites at California Adventure: Soarin' over California and California Screamin'. World of Color Water/Laser Night show. It was amazing. There is no way to describe it. Tower of Terror is NOT on that list in case you missed it earlier.

Disneyland

A much needed vacation.

A wonderful reason to celebrate.

Awesome company.

The BEST babysitters at home with the kids.

The most magical place + the happiest place.

Gorgeous weather.

Delicious food.

Good travels.

Wish we could go back...

Magical firework show

My best friend Stacey, her awesome husband Jason, and their adorable baby, Bailey.

They live in LA and have season tickets to Disneyland so we got to catch up and play a little.

She is so gorgeous and sweet and so is her daughter!

Minnie Mouse

Mickey Mouse himself. He was short!

The reason for the trip. Doug turns 30 in August!

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!

Magic Kingdom

Our favorite rides at Disneyland: Space Mountain and Indiana Jones

Sweethearts

Happy Balentime's Day! This is what Allie said all day!
We were away from these sweethearts for 3 1/2 days and 3 nights. It was nice to have some time away but we sure did miss them.

We are in love with them.
The good, the bad, the ugly, the sweet...all of it.

 Allie's Balentime's. She has been carrying these around for almost a week. She is a big fan!

 Katelyn wearing her cousin Kenzie's Valentine outfit. SO CUTE!

 Wishing she could eat a heart shaped grilled cheese and ham sandwich! Instead she had pureed bananas!

Waiting for her heart sugar cookie. Look at the excitement there!

New Curtains

I made some curtains for Allie's room when we lived in Spokane and now they work perfect in Katelyn's room. Allie's new room has a huge window, so we started a new project. Did you know they sell "black out fabric." It's awesome. I might have to buy some for Katelyn's now. We got the idea for these here. We adjusted her instructions quite a bit to make them work for us. But she is quite the genius when it comes to sewing and DIY projects.

We have finished the first panel and are still working on the second. They are so cute. I LOVE the fabric...A LOT!

I had one Valentine decoration that my sister in law Lisa made for us...that cute LOVE block. So we found a great, easy, cheap one to make. You need some red buttons, a hot glue gun, an empty frame, and we used some fabric for the background. Tah-dah! You're done. Allie even helped us, so it was a fun family project. The idea came from here.

Oh we are feeling the love this month! Doug got another part time job yesterday! We are definitely blessed in so many ways.

Look at this cute dinner. It was SO scrumptious and easy too.

Chicken Pot Pie

Our current project: New curtains for Allie's room. Hopefully we'll show you soon!

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Disneyland

I surprised Doug with a trip to Disneyland. Why? Because he turns 30 this year. His parents want to come and celebrate with us too. So we get to go with them. It will be so fun. We are going in two weeks even though Doug's birthday is in August. Right now he has 4 day weekends because he's only working part time. So it seemed like we should go while we can. My parents are going to come and watch the girls for us so we can go have a fun getaway. I'm so incredibly nervous to leave Katelyn. She's only 7 months and I just don't know what she will be like without mom around.

But the reason for this post is to get some ideas of what we need to do while we are there. We will have 2 days at Disneyland/California Adventure. What should we see and do while we are there?? Your comments are much appreciated! Thanks!

7 Months

Katelyn will be 7 months tomorrow. She just started sitting up yesterday! She is still a little shaky but we are excited about it. She's such a sweet baby! She still spits up all the time and I just don't know what to do about that. Any advice? She's on Zantac and I'm thinking about trying something more natural. I would love your thoughts...

Big girl

Poor little sister!

Katelyn looks huge sitting with Allie!

Water Tower

Have you ever climbed up a water tower?

It's illegal.

I'm from Green River, Wyoming. Not much to do there I tell ya. My friends did climb water towers. I admit I went with them once. I know, I'm a rebel.

Well, Doug got to climb up the inside of one the other day at work. They needed the elevation from the top so he got harnessed in and up he went. Not a bad work day!

Photographers

Up until now we have had wonderful, talented friends that lived near us. They were photographers. They had nice cameras, good angles, great ideas, and again so much talent. We have been looking around Boise for someone to take 6 month pictures of Katelyn and 3 year pictures of Allie. To our surprise photographers charge between $250-$600 for pictures. Our dear friends never charged us more than $50. They are pretty great huh!?

So we decided to try some on our own. We don't have fancy lenses or flashes or cameras. We don't even have much light to work with. But we set up our own backdrops, made a make shift reflector to get more light and had ourselves a photo shoot. These are the results from our first try. Not too shabby. We plan on doing some family pictures and trying some more individual shots when the rain goes away and we get some sunshine.

It was fun.

Allie dancing around. Her pure personality.

This pose was all Allie. So innocent right!?

Katelyn with her whisk. Her favorite photo shoot prop.

Beautiful

Happy girl :)

New Years

We went to Sun Valley for New Years so we could play in some snow. It was FREEZING and play in the snow we did. We also played games with Doug's parents, walked around Sun Valley, ate tons of wonderful food and failed at making a New Year's bomb.

P.S. Katelyn was there for the festivities...however she was sleeping most of the time. We sure love that bug but she didn't make an appearance in any of our pictures. :( I will be better next time.